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ALEXANDRIA, Va. AP 鈥?As people in a packed courtroom wept, Lucy Henning talked about her own guilt at the death of her father, Alan Henning, who was tortured and beheaded by the Islamic State a decade ago. If I werent a moody teenager, maybe he wouldnt have gone, she said through tears at Fridays sentencing hearing for Alexanda Kotey, one of two British nationals 鈥?known as the Beatles by their captives 鈥?who was convicted in U.S. District Court in Alexandria for their roles in the hostage-taking scheme. Roughly two dozen Westerners were abducted and four Americans were killed.Lucy said she has many questions about her father that remain unanswered: Did he want to send us a message Was he mad that we didnt get him out Was he buried or cremated Or was he just left there Kotey was sentenc stanley deutschland ed Friday to life in prison. The sent stanley shop ence was a foregone conclusion under the plea deal he entered last year. El Shafee Elsheikh, another British national, will be formally sentenced in August and will also receive a life term. The death penalty was not an option under the terms of the agr stanley quencher eement that allowed their extradition to the U.S.Kotey was specifically charged with conspiring in the kidnapping and deaths of four Americans 鈥?journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig. Foley, Sotloff and Kassig were all beheaded. Mueller was tortured and raped by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi before she was killed. British aid workers Henn Wpdy Police: 3-year-old accidentally shoots, wounds mother in car
IOWA CITY, Iowa 鈥?The group that runs the Powerball lottery game approved, then abandoned, changes that would have given ticket buyers more bang for their two bucks than the redesign recently implemented, The Associated Press has learned.Powerball managers changed the games odds in October to build bigger jackpots and revive lagging player interest. Jackpots became far harder to win, but smaller cash prizes are easier to attain. The strategy quickly paid massive dividends f stanley cup or state lotteries, leading to soaring stanley us ticket sales for what grew to a record $1.6 billion jackpot last month.But internal documents obtained by The AP show a different Powerball overhaul initially was planned that would have triggered larger jackpots while also providing players with more value. The group that runs Powerball, the Multi-State Lottery Association, voted for the plan in Sept stanley cup ember 2014 and planned to roll it out in April 2015. But the group later shelved the concept amid concerns that it was too complicated and replaced it with the more straightforward changes in October.Compared to the current game, the abandoned proposal would have given players better odds to win the jackpot 1 in 286 million, instead of 292 million and $1 million prizes 1 in 9.2 million, instead of 11.7 million . Under the old system, the odds were 1 in 175 million for the big jackpot and 1 in 5.2 million for the $1 million prize. Players would have had similar odds of winning $100 and smaller prizes. And those winnings |
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